Josh Widdicombe Opens the Doors to His Museum of Pop Culture
Launching 1 January 2026 – a storytelling podcast uncovering pop culture’s funniest and most unbelievable moments.
Pop culture dominates the world we live in. It shapes our lives, rewires our brains, and sometimes makes you wonder why the Spice Girls ever lived together in Maidenhead. Josh Widdicombe has decided it’s time someone looked at all of this properly – or at least, properly enough to laugh at it.
From New Year’s Day, Josh Widdicombe returns to the podcast world with Josh Widdicombe’s Museum of Pop Culture, a twice-weekly look at the funniest, strangest and most unbelievable stories from music, film and television. Think of it as a museum where the exhibits are slightly unhinged and the curators keep forgetting where they put the keys.
Each episode, Josh is joined by one of his long-suffering friends — Suzi Ruffell, Matthew Crosby or Tom Craine — to tackle some of pop culture’s great unanswered questions. Did David Hasselhoff really help bring down the Berlin Wall? Was Mr Blobby a misunderstood creative visionary? And what possessed The KLF to burn £1 million, apart from the obvious: it seemed like a laugh?
After turning Parenting Hell into a phenomenon and making 90s football nostalgia a national pastime with Quickly Kevin, Josh Widdicombe is finally making the show he’s always wanted to listen to. As he puts it: “Music, television and film are full of brilliantly mad geniuses doing incredible things in bizarre ways. These are the most fascinating tales ever told — and they’re also very funny.”
Produced by Keep It Light Media, the comedy network behind Parenting Hell, Wolf & Owl and Chatabix, the podcast promises a healthy dose of cultural nonsense to start the year.
Josh Widdicombe’s Museum of Pop Culture launches on 1 January 2026, available on all podcast platforms.
Elena Leo is the Arts & Lifestyle Editor of Ikon London Magazine.